Receiving or Sharing Materials

Protect your intellectual property when collaborating with third parties

MTAs specify the rights, obligations, and restrictions of both the providing and receiving parties with respect to issues such as ownership, publication, intellectual property and permitted use and liability.

OTD provides high-quality, expedited service while keeping Harvard investigators’ interests protected (i.e. the freedom to publish research results, to transfer modifications to other non-profits, etc.).

OTD will coordinate the creation and and any proposed changes to the agreement with the requestor and copy you on the correspondence.

When the agreement has been finalized, OTD will coordinate signatures. In most cases, the Harvard Principal Investigator will not need to sign an outgoing MTA. You will receive a PDF copy of the fully signed agreement for your records.